Multiple cam



Jan. 7, 1930; F. K. BENEDICT MULT I PLE CAM Filed Oct. 19, 1927 E: E E2 1% 48m .w dlbt BY' I M ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 7, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FREDERIC K. BENEDICT, OF BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO HANCI-IETT MANUFACTURING 00., OF BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, A COR- PORATION OF MICHIGAN MULTIPLE CAM Application filed October 19, 1927. Serial No. 227,189.

This invention relates to a cam that is adjust-able as to its effective radial throw and as to the extent of dwell or efiective circumferential swell.

The inventive novelty resides in certain improved constructions and mode of operation whereby the adjustable member is held on the cam disk by a fastening that permits it to be easily and quickly detached, and as easily replaced, without manipulating any fastening screws or bolts. The detachable cam plate carries its own means for fine and accurate adjustment to variously position it in relation to the cam shaft.

An example of the use of such adjustable cams is found in automatic saw grinding machines, where their function is to impart the proper movement to the grinding wheel for producing a desired shape of the saw tooth. This cam can be set for a certain tooth shape and thereafter can be easily detached and kept for future use. Other adjustable cam members may meanwhile be used for grinding other saws with different shaped teeth. The feature of quick interchangeability, which is one of the characteristics of this invention, does not in the least impair the accuracy of a cam member that may have been set for a certain tooth shape and then detached, nor does it interfere with making any alterations of shape which the operator may subsequently desire to give it by further adjusting. A small number of detachable members may by this means be made to suffice for a large number of saw tooth shapes.

The claimed invention is capable of use in many other kinds of machinery with which those skilled in the art are familiar.

The cam adjusting device includes yielding means, such as a spring, to normally urge the detachable cam plate radially inward toward the shaft, and co-operating means, as for example, a set screw carried by the detachable plate, for adjustably positioning the plate in relation of the shaft. Auxiliary adj usting means, such as a threaded screw with a knurled head, may be carried by the cam dlsk, 1ts end adjustably engaging the cam plate to facilitate the fine and accurate positioning of the cam and to hold it in position As is clearly shown in the drawings, nu-

meral 1 indicates a cam disk having a hub 1 mounted on a shaft 2 and secured thereto by a set screw 3 in the usual way. Upon the face of disk 1 is detachably mounted a cam plate 4 by means of a laterally projecting pintle 5.

The cam plate may be swung around in its own plane about the pintle 5 to the position shown by dotted lines at6 in Fig. 1, and part of the plate 4 when in its working position isengaged by a lug 7 and when the plate is moved to its inoperative position 6 it is disengaged from the lug 7 and can then be lifted off from the disk 1.

A suitable yielding means, such as spring 8,

connects the disk and cam plate, as shown in Fig. 1, fornormally urging the cam plate toward the shaft 2. The cam plate carries a set screw 13 which is threaded in a lug 14 and which can be clamped by a clamping screw 15.

By turning the set screw 18 the cam plate 4 may be forced outward against the tension ofspring 8 and when the adjustment is completed the screw 15 is tightened.

The auxiliary means for plate tconsists in a set screw 9 carried by a threaded boss 10 on disk 1, the boss having a set screw. The endof the adjusting screw 9 bears against the boss 12 on plate 4. Thus, by turning the knurl headed screw 9, which is permanently mounted on the disk 1, the adjustable plate 4 can be easily brought to its desired position and can be held there by means of the screw 11.

When the plate 4 is to be detached its set screw 13 is turned until is end takes against the shaft 2, clamping screw 15 is tightened, the upper end of spring 8 is detached, plate 4 is swungto thezposition shownbydotted lines in Fig, 18nd is li'fte'd off from the do'welpinfi. Another plate similar to 4, but Witha .dif- .ferent vcurnature can .he .put .in place for .a change of work. 7

I" desired the idea involved in this 'invention as claimed can be extended toinclude another adjustable plate 4, as shown at the left hand side in Fi .2 and atthevrjght hand side in Fig. 3. Or inarily, howeven-an i-adjustable plateon one side only of tho-disk 1 is sufficient .for all practical purposes.

.Having thus described any invention, what I claim and desire to secure .-,by1Letters Patexit-is: V

- i1. Thecombinationwithashaft and-afdisk thereon, of a cam plate .detachably :mounted .on said disk, retaining 'means engaging said plate to hold-it on said'disk when t-he plateiis in operating position :and to release it when lmoved to inoperative position, yielding means normally urging the cam plate toward the shaft and means -:for adjustably positioning said plate in ,-relation:to =thesha-ft.

2. The combination w-ith-a'shaftianda disk thereon, of a cam plate 'detaehably pivoted-on said disk, retaining means engaging said plate to hold it on said disk whenithe plate -isinoperative.position andvto releaseit when movedto 1-noperat1-ve;pos1t-1on, yieldinganeans normally urging the cam p'late 'toward the shaft, .means on the .cam plate for adjust-- :ably positioning said plate in-relation to the shaft, andanvauxiliaryadjusting means carried' bythe disk and engagingthe cam plate, for the purposes set forth.

3."-The combination with a shaftanda-disk thereon, of a cam plate detachably pivotedon .said disk. a-lug-onsaid disk adapted \to engage andlholdsaid plate-on said disk when the plate is in operating position andgtto release it for removal when movedto-inopera- .tive position, -a spring connecting .said disk andcam-plate fornomaally urging the cam plate ,towardthe shaft and a set screw threaded r on the; cam plate for adjustably ,po-

vsitioning said ;:plate in relationto thesha'ft.

4. The-.combination withash-aft-and a disk -thereon,of a cam platedetachably pivoted on .saiddisk, retainingtmeansengagingsaidplate to hold' itonsaiddisk 'whenithezplate is inoperative position andto release .it when nnoved to inoperative position, yielding means normally urging .the canr plate toward the shaft,

and aset screwthreadedonthe camg pla'teifor the cam plate for adjustably positioning said plate in relation to the shaft.

I'ntest-imony whereof, Lafii-x my signature. FREDERIC BENEDICT. 

